Thursday, January 21, 2010

They reopened I-5 this morning so we had a chance to get caught up. The lines of trucks in both directions (northbound and southbound) at the chain control checkpoints extended for 15-20 miles in each direction. Some intense snow stuck to the trees along the freeway in Mount Shasta plus it was like this on the wires and Mount Shasta lost power for quite some time today. The truckers would just stop in the slow land and either put on or take off chains depending on the road conditions so the traffic only really moved in the fast lane.